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November 2018’s song of the month is a cover of the Michael Jackson classic performed by Honcho Bravo and produced by Reno Bo. This new version has a half-time beat, orchestral flourishes and rock guitars. The result is a dream-like mid-tempo interpretation of the Quincy Jones / James Ingram penned tune. Listen HERE

Reno is pleased to announce his latest single "Old Glories" - an elegiac, mostly acoustic number whose wistful lyric is accompanied by a string arrangement from Jon Estes, classical guitar flourishes by Jeremy Fetzer (Steelism) and a gentle, tasteful back beat from G. Maxwell Zemanovic (Miranda Lambert). The new single is available to download or stream now HERE

The August 2018 "Song Of The Month" is a soul-tastic mid-tempo groover from Nashville's Ruffin Harris. Written and produced by Reno Bo at Electric Western Studios in Nashville, the track is held down with a Motown bassline and augmented with organ, mellotron and the soulful backing vocals of Ashley Wilcoxson (Dan Auerbach, The Black Keys, Robert Finley). The single is available in digital formats and can be streamed or downloaded here.

Reno's "Song Of The Month" series continues with his cover version of the Beatles classic "I'm Only Sleeping" off their Revolver album. Produced by Reno at Electric Western Studios in Nashville, the track is augmented with the accompaniment of venerable Nashville powerhouse duo Steelism (Jeremy Fetzer on guitar and Spencer Cullum Jr. on pedal steel). The track is available in digital formats and can be streamed or downloaded here.

Reno is pleased to announce his latest single "Little Dream" is available today via Electric Western Records. The new song is available to download or stream at HERE . "Little Dream" features background vocals from the venerable Ruby Amanfu and a guitar solo from Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit guitarist Sadler Vaden.

In addition to writing, recording and producing music, Reno has been working on his visual art and launched a website solely dedicated to that endeavor.www.RenoBoArt.com features his first collection of minimal, abstract prints with a Mid-Century Modern influence.

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Lessons From A Shooting Star is the new album from Nashville based, New York born songwriter, musician and producer Reno Bo. Before moving to Nashville TN, Bo spent the previous several years on the road playing bass with fellow New Yorkers Albert Hammond Jr (The Strokes) and The Mooney Suzuki and as leader and songwriter of The Fame (whose name Lady Gaga is rumored to have used as inspiration for her album of the same moniker.)

Bo was a middle-school kid living in Poughkeepsie, New York, when a friend gave him the Beatles' White Album on CD for Christmas. He hadn't listened much to classic rock radio; he was a pop fan, raised on Beach Boys records and the doo-wop songs of his parents' youth. The White Album blew the doors wide open, though, kicking Bo down a classic rock rabbit hole filled with the Rolling Stones' Sticky Fingers, Big Star's #1 Record and Led Zeppelin I. There was no turning back.

Years later, those early influences are on full display with Lessons From a Shooting Star, an album that mixes the hooks and harmonies of classic pop music with the size, sweep and swagger of rock & roll. It's Bo's second solo record, with the multi-instrumentalist handling virtually every job — from the songwriting to the bass guitar to the vocals to the production — himself. For a musician who'd spent the past decade touring the world as a member of other people's bands, Lessons From a Shooting Star was a chance to focus inward. It was a chance to make music that was completely his.

Lessons From a Shooting Star may be a modern album, but its basic ingredients — jangling electric guitar, B3 organ, harmonies, double-tracked melodies, Farfisa — cook up a sound that's nostalgic, too. “The Brighter Side," a power-pop track co-written with Brendan Benson, could have been tracked at Ardent Studios during the 1970s, rather than Bo's own Nashville apartment during the mid-2010s. A similar vibe anchors songs like "How Do You Do, which he recorded with Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit guitarist Sadler Vaden, the only other musician to make it onto the album. With its influences proudly worn on its sleeve, Lessons From a Shooting Star nods to the music that shaped Bo's life back in New York while still pushing forward to something new. Looks like the guy has learned his lessons well.

On his debut album, 2010's Happenings And Other Things, Bo worked with Fountains Of Wayne main man Adam Schlesinger (“Stacy’s Mom”, “That Thing You Do”.) His music has appeared on the hit ABC-TV show "Nashville" and in television commercials for Taco Bell, US Bank, Hardees, Kleenex, HP and others. He’s been seen and heard on Late Night with Conan O’Brien and famed British radio DJ John Peel’s “Peel Sessions” in the UK. As a member of the Cabin Down Below band - a collection of NYC musicians who produce Petty Fest, a tribute to Tom Petty in cities all over the U.S. - Bo has performed on stage with Norah Jones, Jakob Dylan, member of Kings Of Leon, Ann Wilson of Heart, Butch Walker, and Donald Fagen among others. If you pause your DVD player quickly enough, he can be spotted playing with The Mooney Suzuki in DreamWorks Pictures war satire Tropic Thunder, starring Jack Black, Ben Stiller and Robert Downey Jr.